"Puseyism" was for them a kind of child's play which unfortunately had religion for its play-ground; they viewed it with a superior smile, in which there was more of pity than of anger.
Both of them, though one was a writer for the stage and the other could read _Madame Bovary_ without flinching and approved the morals of _La Dame aux Camelias_, had their roots in English Puritanism.[46] And now the time had come when Browning was to embody some of his Puritan thoughts and feelings relating to religion in a highly original poem.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 40: "Why am I a Liberal ?" Edited by Andrew Reid.

London, 1885.] [Footnote 41: Letters of E.B.B., i.

442.] [Footnote 42: To Miss Mitford, August 24, 1848.] [Footnote 43: Casa Guidi Windows, i.] [Footnote 44: "Jane Eyre" was lent to E.B.B.by Mrs Story.] [Footnote 45: _To Miss Mitford, Feb.

18, 1850._] [Footnote 46: In January 1859, Pen was reading an Italian translation of _Monte Cristo_, and announced, to his father's and mother's amusement, that after Dumas he would proceed to "papa's favourite book, _Madame Bovary_".].